Sirius Glass
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Given that photography is based on base 2, wouldn't in retrospect been better if Ansel Adams has made his Zone Systems in Octal or Hexadecimal rather than Uni-decimal [0 to 10 is eleven levels]?
Given that photography is based on base 2, wouldn't in retrospect been better if Ansel Adams has made his Zone Systems in Octal or Hexadecimal rather than Uni-decimal [0 to 10 is eleven levels]?
Unless you shoot sheet film, AND meter and develop/print by the zone system, AND use graded papers (ergo the start at grade 2).....it don't much matter.
Sirius Glass,
Careful not to confuse Print Zones with Subject Zones.
Grade 2 Paper can fit all 11 Zones from Zone 0 to Zone X if you develop N-2
Actually your play on number bases is worth exploring.
A numerical base system for black & white film.
A numerical base system for black & white print paper.
A numerical base system for color negative film.
A numerical base system for color print paper.
A numerical base system for color slide film.
While the word "print" may be considered redundant, it is included for clarity.
I've often wondered what chairs would look like Steve if our knees were hinged the opposite way, forward not back![]()
With advent of computers, we see Hex as more less a normal number system but when Adams developed zone system, did it even exist in most people's vocabulary? (or did it even exist??)
Does anyone use Octals anymore? I recall using them on DEC PDP11/34 but that was long time ago....
Nibble....
I always thought one above byte should have been a "mega-byte" or "chomp", not "word"...
Does anyone use Octals TODAY for ANYTHING?
More recently than a PDP11 administering solaris, but it's been some years since I typed in configuration settings in octal!With advent of computers, we see Hex as more less a normal number system but when Adams developed zone system, did it even exist in most people's vocabulary? (or did it even exist??)
Does anyone use Octals anymore? I recall using them on DEC PDP11/34 but that was long time ago....
I'm just glad Ansel Adams wasn't a member of Spinal Tap.:munch:
I don't recall using Octals in Solaris either... maybe some obscure config parameters somewhere??
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